To Be Takei, in Queensland
Summary
- Examination of privacy issues related to online communities and social media.
- Examination of social media snooping by employers.
- Examination of state enacted social media legislation.
- Examination of two separate social media usages with very different results.
Social Media communities such as Google+ (Gmail, Youtube), LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, AOL, Yahoo and Xing have their pros, cons and privacy issues.
Some of the privacy issues involved: On line privacy, (RTP) right to privacy*, (RTBF) right to be forgotten*, Internet surveillance, anonymizers, social networking surveillance, ISP (internet service provider) and LEA (law enforcement agency) snooping, marketing surveillance, data retention, (PET) privacy enhancing technologies and (SS) smart surveillance**.
Since some government agencies are involved in some of the above activities (NSA, FBI, CIA) the US Federal government has yet to step in with encompassing legislation.
One of the hot issues is social media snooping by employers. Snooping is regarded as an invasion of privacy as employers have used obtained surveillance information to dismiss employees and evaluate potential new hires.
From Technopedia...
Social media snooping refers to an employer's monitoring of employee social media use while at work. Employers may choose to monitor employee social media use because they are concerned about efficiency. There is also the potential risk that employees will post sensitive information or derogatory comments about managers and colleagues. Employers may also use social media snooping to investigate potential employees before hiring them or to monitor employee behavior outside the workplace.
From the SHRM - The Society for Resource Management, 18 states have enacted social media snooping bans. Similar legislation has either been introduced or is pending in at least 28 states, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
The Nattering One muses... and here we go down the path, as we look at two separate uses of social media (Facebook) with very different results.
Internet Shingle #1
George Takei hung out an internet shingle for his autobiographical film To Be Takei which was released in August.
George Takei is known to many for his portrayal of Hikaru Sulu on the original Star Trek television series.*
Mr. Takei has a penchant for making humorous postings to his Facebook page which has a galactic (tongue in cheek) sized following (7 million+).
Below are two hilarious photo's recently posted on George's Facebook page (Nattering provided)...
Oy, I'd like to meet the person in charge of demographics.
They could be free range and have a high THC content, but the error is ap-pear-rent.
After all these years its good to see George hanging out an internet shingle and swinging with the best of them. Without even snooping, it' simply amazing what one can find on social media websites and communities.
In presenting our 2nd example, we are going to borrow from the Mastercard "Priceless" campaign for our presentation. The "Priceless" ad campaign is now in it's 17th year, and if you haven't seen one in awhile, here's one that was banned:
Which leads us to our 2nd example of social media shingle hanging, but with a very different result, and with the "following" this person earned himself, he might just qualify for a Darwin award. And now our feature presentation...
Internet Shingle #2
A collection of old ammunition, odd but, INTERESTING.
The manufacture of explosive devices, dangerous but, FASCINATING.
Facial with a munition, vain but, FORTHCOMING.
Posting the above three photos to your FACEBOOK account, absolutely idiotic but, PRICELESS.
From Brisbane, Australia: A 32-year-old man has been arrested and charged with a number of offences including manufacturing explosives without authority, failing to correctly store explosives and unlawfully possessing weapons.
Photos, comments and videos posted on Facebook brought the man to the attention of detectives. Chief Superintendent Noel Powers said. "He's been posting certain images and comments on Facebook that has come to our attention and thank God we've been able to action it from there," A member of the public brought the man's Facebook posts to the attention of police. Chief Powers said: "This is where we rely on information."
Police raided the house on on Saturday afternoon but did not expect to find military grade explosives. When [police] entered the premises they found, in addition to a number of drugs, a number of homemade explosives, and a number of concoctions that had the propensity to explode.
Superintendent Powers said the man charged was not an avid bomb maker. "[He's] someone with an unhealthy curiosity towards explosives, combined with a limited knowledge of chemistry - perhaps a more than average level of knowledge in chemistry - it's a lethal combination."
Chief Powers said "It is hard to understand why someone would do this in a suburban environment. The fact is this [was] happening right beside people who [were] going about their normal daily lives, with their families ... it could have been devastating." A police spokeswoman said, "There is no suggestion that this incident is terrorism related."
Footnotes:
A data surfin shoutout to our Uncle's Napoleon Solo and Illya Nickovetch Kuryakin for their assistance in "data ferreting" for this missive and many others... and yes that is Ducky from NCIS, in the day.
*Star Trek was produced (1966-67) by Desilu Productions which later became Paramount Television (1968-69). Paramount Television is the television arm of the Paramount Pictures film studio and is owned by Viacom.
These developments could effect numerous social media and internet related mutual funds, ETF's and stocks.
*RTP vs RTBF: (RTP) right to privacy constitutes information that is not publicly known, whereas (RTBF) right to be forgotten involves removing information that was previously publicly known and not allowing third parties to access the information.
** (SS) Smart surveillance: Automated recognition of individuals and/or pre-determined traits or risk factors/criteria. Use of automatic video analysis technologies in video surveillance applications.
Market Plays
Facebook - NASDAQ (NASDAQ:FB)
AOL Inc. - NYSE (AOL)
LinkedIn - NYSE (NYSE:LNKD)
Twitter, Inc. - NYSE (NYSE:TWTR)
Google Inc. - NASDAQ (NASDAQ:GOOGL) (NASDAQ:GOOG)
Yelp - NYSE (NYSE:YELP)
Yahoo! Inc. - NASDAQ (NASDAQ: YHOO)
Groupon, Inc. - NASDAQ (NASDAQ:GRPN)
Angie's List, Inc. - NASDAQ (NASDAQ:ANGI)
Xing Ag Namen Akt - OTC Markets (OTC:OTC:XNGAF)
Viacom Inc. - NASDAQ (NASDAQ:VIA) (NASDAQ:VIAB)
First Trust DJ Internet Index ETF - NYSEARCA (NYSEARCA:FDN)
Global X Social Media Index ETF - NASDAQ (NASDAQ:SOCL)
Summary
- Examination of privacy issues related to online communities and social media.
- Examination of social media snooping by employers.
- Examination of state enacted social media legislation.
- Examination of two separate social media usages with very different results.
Social Media communities such as Google+ (Gmail, Youtube), LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, AOL, Yahoo and Xing have their pros, cons and privacy issues.
Some of the privacy issues involved: On line privacy, (RTP) right to privacy*, (RTBF) right to be forgotten*, Internet surveillance, anonymizers, social networking surveillance, ISP (internet service provider) and LEA (law enforcement agency) snooping, marketing surveillance, data retention, (PET) privacy enhancing technologies and (SS) smart surveillance**.
Since some government agencies are involved in some of the above activities (NSA, FBI, CIA) the US Federal government has yet to step in with encompassing legislation.
One of the hot issues is social media snooping by employers. Snooping is regarded as an invasion of privacy as employers have used obtained surveillance information to dismiss employees and evaluate potential new hires.
From Technopedia...
From Technopedia...
Social media snooping refers to an employer's monitoring of employee social media use while at work. Employers may choose to monitor employee social media use because they are concerned about efficiency. There is also the potential risk that employees will post sensitive information or derogatory comments about managers and colleagues. Employers may also use social media snooping to investigate potential employees before hiring them or to monitor employee behavior outside the workplace.
From the SHRM - The Society for Resource Management, 18 states have enacted social media snooping bans. Similar legislation has either been introduced or is pending in at least 28 states, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
The Nattering One muses... and here we go down the path, as we look at two separate uses of social media (Facebook) with very different results.
Internet Shingle #1
George Takei hung out an internet shingle for his autobiographical film To Be Takei which was released in August.
Internet Shingle #1
George Takei hung out an internet shingle for his autobiographical film To Be Takei which was released in August.
George Takei is known to many for his portrayal of Hikaru Sulu on the original Star Trek television series.*
Mr. Takei has a penchant for making humorous postings to his Facebook page which has a galactic (tongue in cheek) sized following (7 million+).
Below are two hilarious photo's recently posted on George's Facebook page (Nattering provided)...
Oy, I'd like to meet the person in charge of demographics.
They could be free range and have a high THC content, but the error is ap-pear-rent.
After all these years its good to see George hanging out an internet shingle and swinging with the best of them. Without even snooping, it' simply amazing what one can find on social media websites and communities.
In presenting our 2nd example, we are going to borrow from the Mastercard "Priceless" campaign for our presentation. The "Priceless" ad campaign is now in it's 17th year, and if you haven't seen one in awhile, here's one that was banned:
Which leads us to our 2nd example of social media shingle hanging, but with a very different result, and with the "following" this person earned himself, he might just qualify for a Darwin award. And now our feature presentation...
Internet Shingle #2
A collection of old ammunition, odd but, INTERESTING.
Which leads us to our 2nd example of social media shingle hanging, but with a very different result, and with the "following" this person earned himself, he might just qualify for a Darwin award. And now our feature presentation...
Internet Shingle #2
A collection of old ammunition, odd but, INTERESTING.
The manufacture of explosive devices, dangerous but, FASCINATING.
Facial with a munition, vain but, FORTHCOMING.
Posting the above three photos to your FACEBOOK account, absolutely idiotic but, PRICELESS.
From Brisbane, Australia: A 32-year-old man has been arrested and charged with a number of offences including manufacturing explosives without authority, failing to correctly store explosives and unlawfully possessing weapons.
Photos, comments and videos posted on Facebook brought the man to the attention of detectives. Chief Superintendent Noel Powers said. "He's been posting certain images and comments on Facebook that has come to our attention and thank God we've been able to action it from there," A member of the public brought the man's Facebook posts to the attention of police. Chief Powers said: "This is where we rely on information."
Police raided the house on on Saturday afternoon but did not expect to find military grade explosives. When [police] entered the premises they found, in addition to a number of drugs, a number of homemade explosives, and a number of concoctions that had the propensity to explode.
Superintendent Powers said the man charged was not an avid bomb maker. "[He's] someone with an unhealthy curiosity towards explosives, combined with a limited knowledge of chemistry - perhaps a more than average level of knowledge in chemistry - it's a lethal combination."
Chief Powers said "It is hard to understand why someone would do this in a suburban environment. The fact is this [was] happening right beside people who [were] going about their normal daily lives, with their families ... it could have been devastating." A police spokeswoman said, "There is no suggestion that this incident is terrorism related."
Footnotes:
A data surfin shoutout to our Uncle's Napoleon Solo and Illya Nickovetch Kuryakin for their assistance in "data ferreting" for this missive and many others... and yes that is Ducky from NCIS, in the day.
*Star Trek was produced (1966-67) by Desilu Productions which later became Paramount Television (1968-69). Paramount Television is the television arm of the Paramount Pictures film studio and is owned by Viacom.
These developments could effect numerous social media and internet related mutual funds, ETF's and stocks.
*RTP vs RTBF: (RTP) right to privacy constitutes information that is not publicly known, whereas (RTBF) right to be forgotten involves removing information that was previously publicly known and not allowing third parties to access the information.
** (SS) Smart surveillance: Automated recognition of individuals and/or pre-determined traits or risk factors/criteria. Use of automatic video analysis technologies in video surveillance applications.
Market Plays
Facebook - NASDAQ (NASDAQ:FB)
AOL Inc. - NYSE (AOL)
LinkedIn - NYSE (NYSE:LNKD)
Twitter, Inc. - NYSE (NYSE:TWTR)
Google Inc. - NASDAQ (NASDAQ:GOOGL) (NASDAQ:GOOG)
Yelp - NYSE (NYSE:YELP)
Yahoo! Inc. - NASDAQ (NASDAQ: YHOO)
Groupon, Inc. - NASDAQ (NASDAQ:GRPN)
Angie's List, Inc. - NASDAQ (NASDAQ:ANGI)
Xing Ag Namen Akt - OTC Markets (OTC:OTC:XNGAF)
Viacom Inc. - NASDAQ (NASDAQ:VIA) (NASDAQ:VIAB)
First Trust DJ Internet Index ETF - NYSEARCA (NYSEARCA:FDN)
Global X Social Media Index ETF - NASDAQ (NASDAQ:SOCL)
AOL Inc. - NYSE (AOL)
LinkedIn - NYSE (NYSE:LNKD)
Twitter, Inc. - NYSE (NYSE:TWTR)
Google Inc. - NASDAQ (NASDAQ:GOOGL) (NASDAQ:GOOG)
Yelp - NYSE (NYSE:YELP)
Yahoo! Inc. - NASDAQ (NASDAQ: YHOO)
Groupon, Inc. - NASDAQ (NASDAQ:GRPN)
Angie's List, Inc. - NASDAQ (NASDAQ:ANGI)
Xing Ag Namen Akt - OTC Markets (OTC:OTC:XNGAF)
Viacom Inc. - NASDAQ (NASDAQ:VIA) (NASDAQ:VIAB)
First Trust DJ Internet Index ETF - NYSEARCA (NYSEARCA:FDN)
Global X Social Media Index ETF - NASDAQ (NASDAQ:SOCL)
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